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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!rpowers
- From: rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <C0B1Mw.ADx@panix.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 01:04:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.193459.765@panix.com> <D4JRwB3w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 33
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- In <D4JRwB3w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
-
- >rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers) writes:
-
- >| If you copy an executable from one system to another without a
- >| permission file/marker it would still run. The virus would just not
- >| stay in memory after doing its job of decompressing the file it was
- >| attached to, and thus not spread.
-
- >Interesting - NOT committ hari-kari?
-
- If by har-kari you mean remove itelf from the infected file, see
- below. I would rather not have it do so on its own without telling
- me. If something happened to my marker, I would want it to tell me
- something was wrong, and give me a choice, as below.
-
- >| Alternatively (prefferred), it
- >| could alert the user to its existence, and give the user the choice of
- >| letting the virus stay in the file, or telling the virus to remove
- >| itself from the file.
-
- >PREFERRED? I think far too many people would PANIC and would do something
- >drastic. Better to either die or not stay resident...
-
- It would not stay resident in any case, (without marker) but since
- what we're talking about would be for private use only, anyone who
- accidentally gets this virus would know exactly where it came from.
- Thus they wouldn't PANIC.
-
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